The first international conference on L.M. Montgomery outside Canada Uppsala, Sweden, will be the venue for an international conference entitled L.M. Montgomery—Writer of the World, 20-23 August 2009. The conference commemorates the first translation of Anne of Green Gables, the Swedish Anne på Grönkulla which appeared in 1909. Conference organisers are Gabriella Åhmansson, University of [...]

McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Confirmed Keynotes: Ann Cvetkovich (An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures), Angela Grauerholz (At Work and Play: A Web Experimentation), Ben Highmore (The Everyday Life Reader; Everyday Life and Cultural Theory), Michael O’Driscoll (The Event of the Archive) This conference will bring together academics, advocates, artists, and [...]

The November newsletter of the Early Canadian Literature Society has been posted! Check out our two calls for papers for next year’s ACCUTE congress: “Snap, Crackle, and Pop: Rethinking Early Canadian Popular Literature” and “Where Would We Be Without our Supporting Cast?: Cultural Workers in Early Canadian Literary Society.”

The discussion list for the ECLS is now in working order, with forty-one members already. If you’d like to join, please contact us.

I’ve added a few new pages to the website to get things started: a brief “about” statement; a news page with the first issue of the ECLS News (prepared by Thomas Hodd); a panels page with the details of the two “New Directions in Early Canadian Literary Studies” panels at ACCUTE 2008; and a contact [...]

Welcome to the website for the Early Canadian Literature Society. More will be posted soon.